Photos of our trip...

Hello all! Thanks for keeping up with our blog during our European Adventure. For your viewing pleasure, we have posted the best of our 1,000+ photos on our Picasa web album. Links to those photos are below. You can double click on the slide shows to be taken to our Picasa site.

Boston, Mass: Visited Eirik and Heidi and our new nephew Skye! Long-time friends, Drew and Kelli, live about a mile away from them and let us stay with them.



Greece: Spent about a day in Athens doing the ruins thing and got rained on a lot. Caught a ferry to the island of Mykonos for a few days then on to the volcanic island of Santorini for a few more. Lastly, we spent about 9 days traveling through Crete.



Italy: Flew from Athens to Rome and walked endlessly from historic site to historic site. Amazing. Started at the Vatican and then made our way southeast to the Forums by way of the Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps and numerous beautiful piazzas. Then, we caught a train to Florence for a few days, caught a bus to Siena for another couple days, and took part in two wine tours to the Chianti region and Burnello region. Then it was on to Cinque Terre, which are 5 gorgeous towns along the Mediterranean where they've established vineyards, olive groves, and lemon groves on terraces built into steep slopes. Cinque Terre is now a national park and each town is connected by a trail and rail. Gorgeous!



UK: We flew from Milan to Edinburgh and stayed with our good friend Lou, her husband Stew, and Stew's parents Moira (aka Moisy) and Ian (aka the Big Easy). Lou showed us around Edinburgh for a couple days and drove us down to Liverpool for the Liverpool v Newcastle football match. From Liverpool, Paula and I drove through Wales (beautiful) and then onto the Cotswolds region of England (also beautiful). We ended our UK jaunt with a few days in London.